Poems about Addiction
#addiction
Poetry about addiction to drugs or alcohol, and the effects of addiction on friends, family and relationships. Here you'll find poems tackling addiction to a range of behaviours and substances including smoking, drinking, prescription drugs and recreational drugs.
Nvmb
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 11:30pm
9th Jan 2025 11:30pm
Reverence
I built a temple in my chest,
A sacred place for you to rest.
Your name is stitched beneath my ribs,
A whispered vow, a life to give.
I am the altar, you the flame,
Devotion bound in endless pain.
And every breath becomes your prayer,
A hollow hymn left hanging there.
You write your scripture in my veins,
A litany of sweet remains.
Each word you speak, a curse I crave,
A holy wound, a shallow grave.
I begged for light, you gave me night,
And still, I bathe in your delight.
Consume me—
Take my flesh...
A sacred place for you to rest.
Your name is stitched beneath my ribs,
A whispered vow, a life to give.
I am the altar, you the flame,
Devotion bound in endless pain.
And every breath becomes your prayer,
A hollow hymn left hanging there.
You write your scripture in my veins,
A litany of sweet remains.
Each word you speak, a curse I crave,
A holy wound, a shallow grave.
I begged for light, you gave me night,
And still, I bathe in your delight.
Consume me—
Take my flesh...
#addiction
#drugs
#heroin
#passion
#temptation
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Nvmb
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 1:46pm
9th Jan 2025 1:46pm
Parasite
You sink your teeth into my spine,
A hunger endless, yet divine.
I feel you crawling through my veins,
A whispered curse I can’t contain.
You are the ache that pulls me close,
The kind of love that hurts the most.
And every breath feeds your desire,
I’m just the host; you’re the fire.
Drain me—
Take what you need.
Leave me hollow,
Let me bleed.
Your love, a wound I can’t escape,
A parasite I learn to crave.
I tried to carve you from my skin,
But every cut let you back in.
You leave your marks...
A hunger endless, yet divine.
I feel you crawling through my veins,
A whispered curse I can’t contain.
You are the ache that pulls me close,
The kind of love that hurts the most.
And every breath feeds your desire,
I’m just the host; you’re the fire.
Drain me—
Take what you need.
Leave me hollow,
Let me bleed.
Your love, a wound I can’t escape,
A parasite I learn to crave.
I tried to carve you from my skin,
But every cut let you back in.
You leave your marks...
#abuse
#addiction
#SelfHarm
#temptation
#weakness
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Nvmb
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 2:52am
9th Jan 2025 2:52am
Threadbare
I wear you like a second skin,
A wound that whispers from within.
You move in shadows, cold and deep,
An ache that steals what I can keep.
Your name is written on my bones,
A curse I carry, not my own.
And I can feel you pulling tighter,
A threadbare soul, a fading fighter.
Unravel me—
Let me come undone.
Leave me hollow,
Underneath your sun.
This fragile thread,
Frays with every breath.
Unravel me—
I'll be yours in death.
Your silence drowns the light of day,
A void where promises decay. ...
A wound that whispers from within.
You move in shadows, cold and deep,
An ache that steals what I can keep.
Your name is written on my bones,
A curse I carry, not my own.
And I can feel you pulling tighter,
A threadbare soul, a fading fighter.
Unravel me—
Let me come undone.
Leave me hollow,
Underneath your sun.
This fragile thread,
Frays with every breath.
Unravel me—
I'll be yours in death.
Your silence drowns the light of day,
A void where promises decay. ...
#addiction
#dark
#depression
#heartbroken
#MentalHealth
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1 Comment
JessicaMurray
Ghoul Queen
Ghoul Queen
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 00:08am
9th Jan 2025 00:08am
Obsessed
You give me love and terror
You give me butterflies and butterfly knives
You scare me to my core
I crave you
You make me wring my hands with anxiety
You make me twist and pull my hair
You make me scratch my skin
Fuck, this isn’t fair
Let me swallow you whole
I want to consume your words
You make my brain feral
All my thoughts have blurred
Let me lick your wounds
As you pull mine apart
Let me wrap my fingers around your veins
Let me taste your heart
You give me butterflies and butterfly knives
You scare me to my core
I crave you
You make me wring my hands with anxiety
You make me twist and pull my hair
You make me scratch my skin
Fuck, this isn’t fair
Let me swallow you whole
I want to consume your words
You make my brain feral
All my thoughts have blurred
Let me lick your wounds
As you pull mine apart
Let me wrap my fingers around your veins
Let me taste your heart
#addiction
#love
#obsession
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Pete_25
Poem Published
6th Jan 2025 10:02am
6th Jan 2025 10:02am
She Drinks...
#addiction
#depression
66 reads
15 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 10:13pm
4th Jan 2025 10:13pm
this darkness isn't big enough for two
I don't want to be alone with you
in the dark tonight
trading scars and spilling darkness
like cheap cask wine
because alcoholics
don't buy nice things
and our souls don't know
how to aim for top shelf destruction
We are discarded art
half drawn and torn in strange places
I tried to tape you back together
but you wrapped me up
in your co-dependence
and I was too lonely to cut you off
because like every drug
that's picked me up to let me fall
you got inside and gave me something
I never...
in the dark tonight
trading scars and spilling darkness
like cheap cask wine
because alcoholics
don't buy nice things
and our souls don't know
how to aim for top shelf destruction
We are discarded art
half drawn and torn in strange places
I tried to tape you back together
but you wrapped me up
in your co-dependence
and I was too lonely to cut you off
because like every drug
that's picked me up to let me fall
you got inside and gave me something
I never...
#addiction
#emptiness
#friendship #loneliness
#friendship #loneliness
129 reads
6 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 2:57pm
4th Jan 2025 2:57pm
Get Him Off Me!
Would
you please
do me a
favor and get
this kid to pull his
rod out of me? I need
to get myself cleaned up and
on my way to work! Oh, God! That
feels so good! What?! No! I'm not supposed
to say that! Get him off me! I mean it!
you please
do me a
favor and get
this kid to pull his
rod out of me? I need
to get myself cleaned up and
on my way to work! Oh, God! That
feels so good! What?! No! I'm not supposed
to say that! Get him off me! I mean it!
#addiction
#dialogue
#fiction
#friendship
#sex
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3Y3S-THVT-S33
Electra
Electra
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 2:49am
4th Jan 2025 2:49am
Methamphetamine
Needles were never meant to pierce your skin.
My dear, you are not a doll.
Those needles can't sew you back together again.
My dear, you are not a doll.
Those needles can't sew you back together again.
#addiction
#dark
#drugs
#grief
#SelfHarm
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
1st Jan 2025 4:48pm
1st Jan 2025 4:48pm
Smoke-Free For One Year
There's one thing that's perfectly clear.
I have been smoke-free for one year.
The last cigarette that I smoked was in 2023 at 11:45 PM on New Year's Eve.
I stopped smoking and you can quit even though it may be hard to believe.
Please let it be your New Year's resolution to stop smoking.
I was able to kick the habit and so can you and I'm not joking.
I have been smoke-free for one year.
The last cigarette that I smoked was in 2023 at 11:45 PM on New Year's Eve.
I stopped smoking and you can quit even though it may be hard to believe.
Please let it be your New Year's resolution to stop smoking.
I was able to kick the habit and so can you and I'm not joking.
#addiction
#nonfiction
#tobacco
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scalesofascorpion
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 11:16pm
30th Dec 2024 11:16pm
Lust
intensity winds its thistling vines
binding limbs against an intricate pleasure
kneading a distraction to soothe the ache
chafing me raw In significant measures
binding limbs against an intricate pleasure
kneading a distraction to soothe the ache
chafing me raw In significant measures
#addiction
#hurt
#love #lust
#love #lust
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1 Comment
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
30th Dec 2024 8:46pm
30th Dec 2024 8:46pm
Fast and Furious
So, my countrymen have decided
to embrace...and celebrate...
organized stupidity.
So it is written.
So let it be done.
And may they learn the hard way
how to bring order
to their own thoughts
and actions.
Though unnecessary...
as forethought would have done the job.
So stub your toes, America!
Fuck around and find out.
Go ahead. Reach out.
Get a good grip on that
spinning table saw blade!
...
to embrace...and celebrate...
organized stupidity.
So it is written.
So let it be done.
And may they learn the hard way
how to bring order
to their own thoughts
and actions.
Though unnecessary...
as forethought would have done the job.
So stub your toes, America!
Fuck around and find out.
Go ahead. Reach out.
Get a good grip on that
spinning table saw blade!
...
#abuse
#addiction
#ignorance #SelfHarm
#ignorance #SelfHarm
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
29th Dec 2024 4:37am
29th Dec 2024 4:37am
Alone
I wake up alone
Drink my coffee and bourbon
Next to the foggy window
As the cold rain loosens and breaks
Every leaf still left clinging to life
Before they're pushed to the ground
I go out alone
Thinking about the note you left
That day you went away because of
My distance, despair and depression
Saying you needed more to life
Than a series of highs and lows from a
Never ending roller-coaster ride
And the chilling rain continued
I come home alone
Drink my bourbon and coffee
With a little more...
Drink my coffee and bourbon
Next to the foggy window
As the cold rain loosens and breaks
Every leaf still left clinging to life
Before they're pushed to the ground
I go out alone
Thinking about the note you left
That day you went away because of
My distance, despair and depression
Saying you needed more to life
Than a series of highs and lows from a
Never ending roller-coaster ride
And the chilling rain continued
I come home alone
Drink my bourbon and coffee
With a little more...
#addiction
#anxiety
#bipolar
#depression
#MentalHealth
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